Game apparatus



A. E. KEELY GAME APPARATUS Filed April 10, 1924' Marbh 24, 1925;

Patented Mar. 24, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,530,676 PATENT. OFFICE.

AVERY n. KEEIQY, or HUNTINGTON PARK, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF T0I. e. xarnena.

GAME AIPARATUS.

Application filed. April 10, 1924. Serial No. 705,536.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AVERY E. KEELY, a citizen of the United Statesresiding at Huntington Park, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GameApparatus, of which the following is a specification. 7

This invention relates to game apparatus and it consists in the novelfeatures hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide apparatus adapted to be used bytwo or more contesting players to carry out a game involving theexercise of the faculties of skill and judgment and simulating thevarious plays which may be made in the progress of a game of base ballin order that interest may be instilled in the game during the progressthereof.

With this object in view, the apparatus includes a mat or board laid offin the form of a field having a diamond at the center thereof with theusual bases and plates indicated at the corners thereof. The marginalarea of the field may be used for retaining and supporting pieces whichrepresent the players. The apparatus also includes disk-shaped pieceshaving the names of contesting teams or sides, inscribed thereon. Theapparatus also includes two sets of cubical pieces of difierent colors.The unit. of one set of the last mentioned cubical' pieces beingprovided at-its sides with inscription indicating the plays which may bemade by a batter or base runner and the sides of the unit of the otherset of cubical pieces being provided with inscriptions indicating theplays whch may be made by the batters and fielders in a base ball game.

In the accompanying drawing: 7

Figure 1 is a plan view of the board or mat used in the game apparatus.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a disk piece used in the apparatus"and which is distinguished by hearing the name of a certain team.

Figure 3 is a similar View of another similar piece but of a differentcolor from that piece illustrated in Figure 2 and hearing the name ofanotherbase ball team, Figure 4 is a perspective view of a cubical pieceused in the apparatus and having upon its sides inscriptions indicatingthe plays whch might be made by a base runner,

Figure 5'is a similar View of another cubical piece having upon itssides inscriptions indicating the plays which might be made by a batter,

Figure 6 is a perspective view of a cubical piece having upon its sidesinscriptions indicating the plays which might be made by a base runner.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of still another cubical piece havingupon its sides inscriptions indicating the plays whlch might be made bya pitcher;

As illustrated the accompanying drawing, the game apparatus includes aboard or mat 1 having at the center thereof a position 2, whichrepresents the pitchers box. A diamond 3 is laid off upon the-obversesurface of the board or mat 1 and surrounds the pitchers box 2. Plates 4are indicated at the corners of the diamond3 which are alined with themedian longitudinal dimension of the board or field 1. Bases 5 areindicated at the corners of the diamond 3 which lie between the plates4. Benches 6 are indicated at the opposite diagonal corners of the board1 and upon these benches the pieces representing the'players may bedeposited at the ,beginning of the game.

Benches 7 are indicated at'the other opposite diagonal corners of theboard 1 and upon the said benches the pieces which have scored may bedeposited during the progress of the game. The benches 6 and 7 at oneend of the board are of the same color and of a color different from thebenchesat the opposite end of the board 1. The benches atthe same endportion of the board are of the same color. The game apparatus alsoincludes one or more disks 8 which are colored red and which simulatethe cover of a base ball and which are provided at their central andwhich bear upon their side surfaces inscriptions indicating the playswhich may be made by a base runner.

The game apparatus also includes one or more cubical pieces 11 which arealso colored red and ich bear upon their sides inscripmay be prescribed,

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scriptions indicating the plays which may be made by a pitcher dur ngthe progress of game of base ball.

In carrying out the game various rules which apply to the standard gameof base ball are applicable to the various plays w iich maybe made bythe indi luals of the con testing games. In ear out the game one playerstands at one end of the board or mat 1 and the other player at theopposite The player who represents "the side which -is in the fieldplaces his disk 8 or 9 as the case may be, in the pitchers box 2. Thecontestants in the'game assemble their pieces upon the players benches6. The player who represents the side which is at the bat casts hiscubical block or blocks upon the marginal portion of the field and theinscription upon the side or sides thereof which turn up indicate t-heplay or plays which are to be made by the batter or base ri-in-ners. Thecontestant who represents "the side which is in the field casts hiscubical block or blocks and the inscri tions which appear upon theuppermost sari-"aces of the said block or bloc :s indicate the play orFrom the above description taken in-conbut in general, the rulesjunction with theaccompanying drawing, it will be seen that apparatus ofsimple and durable character is provided and which may be used forexercising skilliand judgment in carrying out in imitation the progressof a game of contested base ball. The pieces which are used forindicating the various players are also used for keeping the scores andthe diamond 'is so arran ed upon the field that the plate at either ofthe corners of the diamond which is-located in alinement with the medianlongitudinal dimension oitl'the field maybe used as alhome plate andwhile all ofthe players will movearound the diamond in thesamedirection, the home plate for one team is at one corner of :the diamondwhile the home plate for the other contesting team is at the oppositediagonal corner of the diamond.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is v A game apparatuscomprising a board havinga surface representing a field, a station laidoil at the center of the held and representinga pitchers box, a diamondsurrounding the pitchers box and provided at its corners withindications representing bases and plates, the plates being diagonallyopposite each other and the bases located between the plates, the fieldbeing provided at its marginal. portions with areas indicating benches,disk shaped pieces of diilere-nt colors and bearing i pon their obversesides the names of difierent-contesting teams, said pieces adapted ,tobe deposited upon the benches the plates and the bases, and cubicalpieces one of them having lllPOll its sides inscriptions representingthe plays which may be :made by a batter, and others the plays which maybe made by a player at the bat, another of plays which may be'made by abase runner, and-still another having at its sides-inscriptionsindicating plays which maybe made by a pitcher-r In testimony whereof Ila-iii): my si nature.

AVERY pricier.

